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Xelena González and Adriana Garcia have known each other since childhood — probably.

"Both of our parents are community organizers involved in community organizing here in in San Antonio," says González. "Specifically the west side of San Antonio, which is an economically impoverished neighborhood but culturally very, very rich and vibrant and beautiful and strong."

They've been placed at the same events when they were kids, even though they have no memory of meeting. They weren't destined to become friends until adulthood, when they met — for sure this time — when they were both working on a local arts project.

"We worked really well together," says González. "We started sort of meeting and dreaming together, and we've helped each other out a lot."

Most of their collaborating these days happens over tacos.

"We usually talk about our lives and we laugh a lot and sometimes we talk together," says González.